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French eyewear industry association elects new president
Prûne Marre, managing director of Essilor France, was elected as the new president of GIFO, the French eyewear industry association, last week. She succeeds Eric Lefort, managing director of Marcolin France, who led the organization since April 2022. Jean-Michel Lambert (HOYA Vision Care), Matthieu Lafont (Lafont) and Sandra Timon (Minima) ...
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Euromcontact appoints new secretary general
Euromcontact, the European association of the contact lens and lens care industry, has appointed Laure-Anne Copel as its new secretary general, replacing Pascale Rouhier who left the organization after ten years in that position. Copel held the same secretary general role for the last six years at GIFO, the French ...
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Bertrand Roy has passed away
Bertrand Roy, a key figure of the Essilor group and the French optical sector for several decades, passed away just a few days ago at the age of 67, Acuité and other French websites report. After an initial 10-year stint at Renault, Roy joined the Essilor Group in 1987 where ...
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ArticleFrench industry survey shows double-digit inflation for raw materials
The prices of raw materials and consumables for the production of frames and lenses by French companies have increased in the double-digit range in recent years and are expected to keep rising quickly next year, according to a recent announcement by GIFO, the national eyewear industry association. The organization surveyed ...
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New president at GIFO
Eric Lefort, the managing director of Marcolin France, has been unanimously elected as the new president of GIFO, the French eyewear industry association. He succeeds Léna Henry, former general manager of Essilor France, who had been at the helm of the organization since September 2020. Prûne Marre, who recently replaced ...
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LEOO sheds light on origin labels for French opticians
Les Entreprises de l’Optique Ophtalmique ( LEOO ), a group of 80 French eyewear companies and a member of the national industry association GIFO , made a few days ago an online presentation to French opticians on the different labels of origin available in the country. The event followed ...
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ArticleFrench ready to raise their eyewear budget
88 percent of French consumers plan to maintain or raise their budget for their next purchase of prescription eyewear, according to the results of a new survey by Opinion Way, a research company commissioned by Gifo, the French eyewear industry association, and the Silmo trade show. This result represents a ...
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French suppliers to keep normal services during the new lockdown
Faced with a new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the French government decided last week to implement another national lockdown as of Nov. 1 and for at least one month, closing all retail businesses considered as non-essential. As with the first lockdown in the spring, opticians are allowed to remain ...
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Gifts to French opticians to be forbidden
Initially launched in 1993 in order to regulate relations between industry suppliers and health care professionals, and to ensure the independence of the latter in their choice of products offered to consumers, the so-called “antigifts” French law will be extended to opticians as of Oct. 1 this year. It will ...
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News briefsLena Henry becomes president of GIFO
Lena Henry , the managing director of Essilor France since December last year, has been elected as the new president of GIFO , the French eyewear industry association. As of Sept. 1, she is taking over the position from Oxibis ’ associate director Jérôme Colin who had been ...
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ArticleTwo-speed restart in France after coronavirus crisis
Lens manufacturers are enjoying a strong recovery on the French market, while frame manufacturers are experiencing a slower restart as cash-strapped opticians delay reassortments.
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Gifo and Silmo send 50,000 face shields to opticians
Gifo , the French eyewear industry association, will provide optical shops with a total of 50,000 face shields, in partnership with the organizers of the Silmo eyewear show. The operation is aimed at supporting the country’s opticians that reopened their businesses on May 11, after almost two months of ...
